"Whirl man's mind around so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!"

"Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?"

"Off hours, yes. But time to think? If you're not driving a hundred miles an hour, at a clip where you can't think of anything else but the danger, then you're playing some game or sitting in some room where you can't argue with the four-wall televisor."

"Only if the third necessary thing could be given to us. Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: leisure time to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two."

"The public itself stopped reading of its own accord."

"The most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority."

"All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there."

"Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day everyday, sleeping its life away."